Would this lib have a problem with someone saying the Gitmo prisoners should be summarily executed? I’m pretty sure she would. But this liberal talk show host has no problem saying that Rush should be shot for saying he wanted Obama’s Socialist policies to fail.
Here is Stephanie Miller on Larry King Live:
LARRY KING, HOST: Nancy, what do you make of hoping for failure. Supposing it worked, and there were maybe some socialistic inclines, but more people went to work and more people had health care? Why would that be bad?
NANCY PFOTENHAUER, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think the point is that Rush — and I agree with him wholeheartedly on this — believes these policies are antithetical to the American dream, and absolutely the wrong direction for the economy. I would be delighted to challenge the other two panelists on this one. What he has put together in the so-called stimulus package is an embarrassment. You had Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid writing the bill. You’ve put in 46 billion for 15 programs that OMB already declared ineffective. You have 300 million dollars going for golf carts, for heavens sake. Then turns around and, in a downturn economy, and advocates a tax increase. At the same time, he is making protectionist noises. This is a nasty economic cocktail, and it is going to hurt the American people. And I think that’s what Rush Limbaugh has been trying to underscore. And he is exactly right.
KING: If he fails, Stephanie, that will be good?
STEPHANIE MILLER, LIBERAL TALK RADIO HOST: I guess that is what Nancy and her friends want. As long as you have a place to listen Rush on the radio — if he fails we all fail.
KING: If his policies fail, he fails, right?
MILLER: Exactly. To me that seems treasonous.
~~~MILLER: Nancy, you are right about one thing. We love this episode of Republican. It’s delightful and it’s not solving any of the serious problems that the country is facing. You know who is it good for? Rush Limbaugh. He loves this attention.
If I could say something tonight that gets me that kind of attention, like maybe Rush Limbaugh should be executed for treason. How about that?
I’m sorry, Rush would be way at the back of any line waiting to get shot for treason. Wanting Obama to fail in turning this country into a Socialist state is one of the most patriotic sentiments I’ve heard on radio in some time. And if he had said the same thing, that those who want Obama’s plan to succeed should be shot for treason he would be strung up by Miller. Par for the course I suppose, inside any description of a liberal is the word hypocrite.
Maybe we should put those in the press, such as James Risen and Eric Lichtblau and who leaked the CIA wiretap program and the SWIFT program in the front of that line to get shot for treason?
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It’s going to get very very nasty. An “UNcivil war in fact. I already have trouble talking to my friends (and stupid family) who voted for Obama, and if even one of them mentions Rush Limbaugh to me, I may have to strangle them!
After all the ways they all beat President Bush up over the last 8 years, I am sick to death of their hypocrisy!
I am listening to Rush- or shall I say Bawny Fwank- and I am getting ready to scream! Are you kidding me? We have to take it up the…… because Obama is the King? Well Bawny, that’s your call, but I am not that easy!
So helping the enemies of America and openly wishing for our missions
in Iraq/Afghanistan isn’t treason and worthy of execution? Yet, wishing
that their messiah fails in turning America in Europe is?
OK, So am I the only one that views this whole situation with humor. Rush and the White House know exactly what they are doing with this. This is a syllogism that rather than wring our hands over, we should sit back and marvel at the beauty of it. The equation is thus:
Rush Limbaugh wants the President to fail. If the President fails the country fails. Therefore, Rush Limbaugh wants the country to fail.
Then the White House takes it to the next level:
Rush Limbaugh wants the country to fail. Rush Limbaugh represents the Republican Party. Hence, the Republican Party wants the country to fail.
It’s brilliant. And Rush being the great entertainer that he is, he runs with it. Is there a better way to generate publicity than getting into a verbal tussle with the White House? There are radio host that would kill for that type of publicity. But their not Rush. Kind of like why Jay Z never bothered mentioning his haters in his raps. The only one worthy of that honor was Nas and 50 Cent.
I would be concerned if they got into with Savage or Hannity that’s local community theater type stuff. But getting into with Rush? That my friend is Broadway and something that we should enjoy.
As an aside (I’m not going to debate the nuances of Rush’s statement. Because that’s missing the point. That statement is like a title to a movie and what has transpired is the actual film. And its the film that we’ll ultimately judge. )
Clear Channel is certainly loving it. They lost $4 billion in 2008. You don’t think Rush understands that? The only one getting hurt by this is Michael Steele and the GOP in general. But hell, they are clueless anyway.
This is a lot more fun than discussing the banking crisis which no one on earth really understands anyway. The whole thing has run its course and both sides got exactly what they wanted from it.
Congrats for getting the who is playing whom” bit, James Manning. I would only caution you to not underestimate the many in the GOP who do indeed “get it”. Steele and the elected ones may be a little slow. But then, if they can’t maintain a poker face thru it all, they’re useless anyway.
And it’s not all about money and ratings. That’s just a bonus perk.
Personally, I love it when this stuff drops from the mouth of liberals….
That sums things up quite well.
Someone needs to knock some sense into that thick brick Stephanie Miller calls a brain.
Who was it? Feinstein who has outed / revealed sensitive info regarding where preds and SOF are based out of… what 3 times?
We need to be very cautious about talks of treason on both sides.
@james manning: “I the only one that views this whole situation with humor.”
Yeah, it’s always funny when libs talk about killing conservatives or gleeful at the prospect of their demise (how many examples do we have? Bush, Cheney, Tony Snow, Rush).
Imagine James’ outrage if a Republican suggested killing a lib.
What was really funny about James’ comment was this:
“Rush Limbaugh wants the President to fail. If the President fails the country fails. Therefore, Rush Limbaugh wants the country to fail.”
You have it backwards.
If Obama succeeds we all fail.
James Manning:
Have you noticed what Obama’s policies are? They are socialist/Communist. If you don’t think so then explain.
Rush has pointed this out about Obama and his thinking. Obama wishes to turn the nation into a socialist one…think I’m kidding? Rush has been criticizing Obama’s policies not him personally. you don’t listen to Rush so how would you know?
So, Rush pointing out Obama’s policies for what they are states he want’s Obama to succeed but his policies to fail. He didn’t say he wanted Obama to fail like Liberals and Democrats have done for eight years against Bush. Did you think the libs wanted Bush to succeed? Hell No! Democrats are willing to send America into an economic tailspin to regain power then let Bush or the Republicans do their job. Bad news for America is good news for democrat. “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” (Rahm Emmanuel). Democrats has seized upon the moment to turn this
country into a socialist one, do you approve of that?
Obama seems bothered over Rush so he has to waist everyone’s time attacking a private citizen. I thought Obama “the chosen one” was above all that and would bring everyone together. apparently, not so. He’s a phony and an empty suite and can’t fight his own battles. Rush worked his way up on his own Obama had the help of William Ayers, J wright, ACORN, main stream media and now is using taxpayer resources attacking a private citizen while the DOW plummets.
If Clear channel lost $4 billion is that because of the economic down turn? How come Rush had his contract of $400 million dollars renewed?…sounds like everything’s going well.
If you want to talk banking hen we can start with the CRA of 1978, then 1995 Clinton Administration using DOJ to intimidate banks into giving loans to people who couldn’t afford them. Has democrat finger prints all over it. No Republican scandal there.
Nice try though, in bringing up Rush to distract from the real issues like the national democrats are doing.
Come on, group… I’m hoping this keeps going and we have more liberals wandering around the talking head circuit making statements like this. Couldn’t do the conservative movement any bigger favor. They only drive more of the somewhat curious to have a listen to Rush to find out what all the “ado” is about.
I heard Rush say they think the listenership as almost doubled in the last week… but they don’t have the numbers to substantiate it at this time since it’s not sweeps. Even sans specific numbers, I’d wager a guess that his listening audience has indeed increased.
Rush can handle his own on this media/WH assault. As he says, “I was built for this”.
This game may be over for the WH being as Gibbs, the in-the-dark Press Secy, labeled it “counterproductive” on the same day it was exposed as an orchestrated campaign and WH ploy, and Plouffe had a high profile WaPo op-ed. Doh! They may be starting to see that this stuff is most likely to backfire on their intent.
The left is engaging in utterly disingenuous fear-mongering in order to paint the right as devious. They either do not truly understand what Rush means (highly unlikely), or they are deliberately taking his words out of context to incite a social riot of hatred and venom.
Rush believes that Obama’s plans will cause the country to fail in the (not too) long run; therefore, if Obama fails (in causing America to fail), America WILL NOT FAIL. Rather obvious to me and to clear-thinkers alike, if Obama fails to cause this country to fail, it will succeed.
CAN IT BE THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND??
Rush truly believes this:
IF OBAMA FAILS, AMERICA SUCCEEDS!!!
So you idiodic lunatics that are salivating over your hatred for Rush Limbaugh, LET IT GO!!!
Does anyone in the mainstream media have the stones to explain this to the lemmings??
Stop using Rush’s words out of context. You know full well that Rush does not wish for the country to fail. You are so drunk with power and spinning mad with hatred for the right (and have been ever since the 2000 election) that you are doing a terrible disservice to the rest of the country. If anyone is trying to see the nation fail, it is you who are demoralizing societyand devaluing the stock markets by instilling fear in the hearts of those who haven’t heard Rush’s words in context (because you don’t want people to hear them, or they might see through your disgusting charade!)
You politically-bent hacks who have nothing better to do than cast stones at your ideological opponents make me sick.
Jeff V
So this lady wants Limbaugh executed for Treason? I hope that gets replayed over and over to show what evil, malcontents they are. If a conservative had said that about a liberal talk show host, the media would be having a field day.
Was she wearing a red star or swastika???
Stephanie Miller appears on FOX from time to time. Long winded and short on facts, likes to filibuster, really annoying little wench. She’s taking up where Randi Rhodes left off and look what happened to her:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/02/18/leftwing-nova-m-radio-folds-randi-rhodes-mia
Newsbusters also links to an unbelievable letter penned by Algore. Thought he was going to take Rush down, that went well. His letter is a must read, just about blew my eyebrows off, almost hoping he didn’t write that crap.
@Timothy: “I hope that gets replayed over and over to show what evil, malcontents they are. “
You know it won’t be. Yet, you will still see out of context clips of Rush saying he hopes Obama fails over and over and over and apparently well informed libs like James don’t know what Rush meant even though he has said it repeatedly.
There seems to be two different things going on…
1) http://www.qando.net/?p=1242
and
2) >>This is a lot more fun than discussing the banking crisis which no one on earth really understands anyway.>>
Bingo! Let’s talk about _anything_ except the banking crisis.
The idea of executions for those who disagree with lefties and libs make them all go orgasmic. The left, useful idiots liberals not unlike today’s islamofascists have since the French Revolution nursed a blood lust that has far to many of them drenching their knickers.
Every totalitarian of the twentieth century from Lenin Stalin, Kun, Hitler, Castro, Ho and most recently Chavez have caused to swarms of our lefty and lib elites to instantly and repeatedly reach spontaneous multiple orgasms. The left has long called for the blood of tall hose who had viepoints different from themselves. Stephanie Miller would have been the perfect fit for an administrator, planner and organizer for Stalin’s Gulag Empire.
Typical of the brain dead left, they advocate what they would not allow anyone else to say. The left will always accuse others of what they themselves are doing.
Again, this is no big deal and anyone on the left that took Rush’s statement serious should be ashamed of themselves. It wasn’t that big of a deal but as political theatrics go, the WH and Rush played it perfect.
I was more than willing to give Michael Steele a chance but apologizing to a talk show host is some punk shit.
@jetmech,
You explained Rush’s statement well but you forget one thing… I don’t give a damn what Rush said. I don’t care how the WH responded. I find it odd that Liberals would get their panties in a knot over it. Who cares? But again, for entertainment purposes… I enjoyed it.
bottom line on this is simple. If BO shoots at a thousand targets and tries to do them all at once in normal times, he would fail. If you shoot all your bulletts out at the same time in the first days of a long battle when the enemy is surrounding you, your only last resort is to call in the artillery onto your position and hope you survive. I think the democrats socialist are already calling in artillery onto the core of America because they know this may be their last chance to socialize this country. They feel they have nothing to lose so they are going for broke. Their rhetoric about using the crisis is pure socialist strategy. The house foundation has not just cracks but the entire foundation is sinking and while doing very little on this, they are calling in teams to redecorate the bath, renovate the landscaping, add 400 spas, and while they are at all this they have the team from extreme makeover arriving. The agenda for the socialist plan was building since Reagan took power. The started to do their thing in 1992 with Clinton and pushed gays in the military and Hilary care along with other agenda items and got beat bad in 94. What they learned I guess is that you need a massive crisis. So in the second term, Clinton and his cronies started pushing freddie and fannie to get those who could not afford homes into ones that made no sense. Banks were pushed to make crazy loans and knowing that there is a strong element of greed in the banking industry, they let things go. W. came in and had 9/11 which was another crisis and while we were dealing with that, the dems continued to deny that anything was wrong in hearing after hearing. The same people that did all that denying are not leaders in the new social engineering going on to get money to the right people, as long as they are not white males. Bush should have done more, but with the press slaming any attempt to not get poor people into homes, I think he let it slide as we were fighting the war on terror. He got slammed for trying to address some long term financial issues with social security.
So now they have power everywhere on the federal level and the crisis they helped to engineer and so we see a flood of every soical engineering and socialist agenda all at once. All will fail and in 2010 there will be a reversal starting to pull them in. We may be in a terrible depression by then and have unemployment in double digits. It will be time just like it was for Reagan who came into massive unemployment and double digit inflation at the same time.
@james manning: So James, you approve of political murder?
This is why I don’t get cable. People blah blah blahing to fill up air space just isn’t news, nor is it entertaining. I’m sure advertisers love it.
From a conservative blogger:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279
Now now, Larry… there you go trying to pigeon hole one who is a Democrat-lite as a conservative again. BTW, you have lost your ability to continue using Brooks, Buckley and Gergen now, as they’ve all “seen the light”.
But you’re at a disadvantage as, you see, I heard his attempted, hysterical exchange on the Mark Levin show. I needed a laugh that day, and certainly Frum didn’t disappoint….
Levin called out Frum on his blogpost slamming Rush personally. This is the guy who wants to make the party “inclusive” while spouting off lies about Rush (whom I listen to with regularity/daily for years… and wholly recognize the lies media tells about specific quotes). Levin gave him space to defend his personal assault, and Frum blew it.
Why? Not only does Frum hate Rush, Frum is a Democrat-lite, not a Conservative. Even note his website is called “The New Majority: Building a Conservatism that can Win”.
Excuse me? We alter the principles of conversatism to cater to getting votes? In that case, what have we won truly?
To demonstrate how brain cell challeged Frum is on what constitutes a conservative, shall we use his own words from the article you ignored?
zzzzzzzz…. if this is one that defines “conservatism” merely by his resume, we be in deep doo doo. And certainly none of his life’s events, however boring, articulate what conservatism is.
Ever the whiner, Frum continued to attempt to collect his shattered cajones (which he should, based on his hysterical, wounded victim performance against “the great one”, Levin) on his blog. The “great one”, Levin, is no dummy and Frum was plainly at a disadvantage for philosphy, and fact.
Sorry, Larry. Rush stands up daily and is *very* inclusive… no gender, no race, no economic divisions in what he has to say. *All* Americans. Frum stands up and talks about acquiesence merely to win. That’s not conservatism… that’s abandonment of principle merely to call yourself a “majority”. And that’s a “win” even I don’t want.
Suggestion: Drop Frum from your “conservative” definition if you need to pad your comments. Ain’t gonna fly, because this Audio and the link to Frum’s personal tear down of Rush will live on Levin’s site for a long time. And I will never hesitate to bring up to you what Frum’s real agenda was, and how he spent an entire segment trying to dodge it… then ran screaming “foul!” at the top of his lungs.
Tell you what… I’ll be happy to hand him over to your party. He’s closer to you than conservatives anyway. Take him. Then he won’t further damage my beliefs.
Larry, I’ll see your conservative blogger and raise you one:
One other thing Larry.
Not too long ago someone from Huntington Beach was criticizing cut and paste, saying that technique was the “mother’s milk” of blogs like this.
Oh wait…..
That was you.
Pot. Kettle.
Rush should be tried for treason? Why? Because he dares disagree with their beloved “One,” going so far as to say that Limbaugh hopes that Obama’s ill thought plans to “CHANGE” America will fail.
‘How dare conservatives use their free speech rights to go against the will of the Democrat party!’ (sic)
‘These Republican naysayers must be silenced and quickly!’ (sic)
This is sick, and shows just the height of hypocrisy that the left wing extremists hold for any who would stand up against their plans for America. Consider the end of the Wiemar Republic and BE AFRAID. Obama’s worshipful and rabid brown shirts are coming out of hiding. Once they wrest the control of the Census and voting records from Congress and the state’s election departments, will they then target conservatives? (Remember Joe the Plumber!)
Appears that Stephanie Miller hasn’t caught on, even Olbermann got it, perhaps the memo hasn’t reached all of the nutroot’s talking heads as she certainly has not adopted the “Obama tone.”
The following column explains the process and speaks to how Obama has manipulated his way to where he is by his mannerisms, tone, talk and temperment. Nothing really new, still, it is refreshing to see the diagnosis put together as nicely as this author does, just got to read it for your self.
McCain and others have erred by altering their own demeanor simply to play well with Obama. It’s phony and doesn’t work against him.
Well, according to Mr. Siegel, the Rush speech at CPAC has set us all free.
No More of Obama’s Talk, Tone or Temperment
Bill Siegel
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/no-more-of-obamas-talk-tone-or-temperament/2/